Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-14

find admission to the dwelling-house,
reach unperceived the boudoir, pro-
cure the money, and return without
any ones being the wiser for her adj
venture. 10 get her children out of
the way she suggested that they should
visit her brother, who resided mile
away, and communicate to him the
step she had taken. As soon as they
were gone she quilted her sisters house
unknown to any one but her maid,
whom she had taken with her, and,
procuring q cab, went to within a
hundred yards of her former residence
sn he Boulevard de Neuilly. Direct
ing the driver to wait for her return
she went toward the dwelling, opening
the gate into the garden with caution;
she loft it ajar and crossed the lawn to
side door, This she also left ajar,
being afraid that the closing of it might
rouse the inmates.
Without difficulty or mole tation she
assembled the stairs and succeeded in
getting possession of the money. She
quilted the house, still leaving the side
door ajar, but on passing out of the
garden she closed the gate and hastily
walked toward the cab. She reached
her sisters house before her children
returned and without her absence hay
ing been noticed
The next morning M. Sasson failed
to call for his valet as usual. After
writing for some time, according to the
Wallets statement, he went to his mas
ter's apartment and found him lying
in bed with bullet hole in his head.
On the fcoverfet lay his revolver, His
watch and purse were missing. His
wardrobe had been ransacked and his
escritoire broken open. There was no
doubt that the assassin had been at work.
The Judge of Instruction and his Of
ticers investigated the case and arrived
at the conclusion that murder and rob-
berry had been done. The valet told
what he knew about the family troubles
and the fact that Nine. Sasson and her
children having left their home the pre-
vious day on account ofW hat had passed
between monsieur and his wife and son.
Then the valet related the incident of
the revolver.
But how had any one entered the
house? Jean Chauban, the valet, testi-
fed that early in the morning. as he
was taking the milk at the garden floor,
he observed that the side door of the
house was ajar, and going in that way
closed it after HIM. The garden wall
was high, but an expert climber could
easily scale il on either side
The gendarmes on duty near by
testified that between 10 and l o'clock
the previous night he saw cab stand
ing within few hundred feet of the
house. He spoke with the driver, who
said:
"Some gay old bachelor must live
near by for a very comely woman has
just disappeared by the side of that
house,
The cabman was easily found by the
police. Did he know the lady? No.
Where did he take her up? On the
corner of the Rue de Morny and the
Faubourg ST. Honora. Nine. Seasons
sister presided on the Rue de Morny
near the Rue de Pontheu. 1t was u
very painful conclusion to reach, but
there was no avoiding it-Mme. Sasson
had assassinated her husband and the
missing articles were taken merely to
turn aside suspicion. She had lived
unhappily with him; he had determined
to reduce his establishment; he had
struck her
All these facts were testified to by
'domestics. Then came the episode of
the pistol, narrated by the valet, and
the further fact, admitted by Nine
Seasons maid when she was cleverlv
captured on the street and removed to
the office of the Judge of Instruction,
that Mime. Sasson had a key to the
garden and the side door of the house,
and that she had been absent from her
sisters house for two hours between
$50 and 1880 the night Oct. p.
Everything being thus clear, Nine.
Sasson was arrested and charged with
the crime of murder. Nine Sasson
denied the accusation and told the
story as the reader has it before him,
emitting the episode of the pistol.
"Do you remember going to the bu-
reau in the library before you left the
house Oct. 22?' the Judge of 1nstruc-
ton asked her.
Yes, do
''You took Il revolver out of the bu-
reau, and you haven't aaentioned the
fact'
Il did, but / refrained from saying
anything about it because l did not
wish to have to say that 1 was afraid
my husband might shoot one or the
other of us"
"What did you do with the Upistol?'
Il put itbehind vase On the mantle
piece in my husbands apartment, in
tending to remove it, but forgot it,
In consultation afterward the Judge
said to Coupe, a deteetive=
This WOLFRAM does not talk nor look
like a guilty person. If she is not
guilty-and, mark you, she has just the
sum OF money she says she went for to
her boudoir, and the missing watch has
not been found near her or about her
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